Nicolas Tye wins planning for Hertfordshire Passivhaus

Bedfordshire-based Nicolas Tye Architects has won planning for an £850,000 Passivhaus in Hertfordshire

The five-bedroom family home will be clad in larch and features a number of double height spaces.

Containing a garage, and rear balcony area, the Passivhaus will require almost no heating.

The architect’s view

‘Our first Passivhaus project was fortunate in having a lot of local and planning support to provide this site with an elegant and robust solution to this generous plot townscape location.

‘This replacement dwelling site with its extensive housing mix to the locale provided a simple form solution of high quality design and detailing. Using single block walls with larch cladding and high specification windows provides a low maintenance holistically designed solution which provides a truly wonderful family lifetime home.’

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